Hay or cotton press



Z'Sheets-Sheet 1. G. MGGOVERN.

HAY AND COTTON PRESS.l

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Patnted Deo. 30.11884.

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(No Model.)

G. MGGOVERN.

HAY AND GoTToN PRESS.

No. 310,143. Patentedneo. so, 1884.

H lll? UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE MGGOVERN, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

HAY OR COTTON PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,143, dated December 30, 1884-.

Application filed December 5. 1884. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE McGovEnN, a citizen or" the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay and Cotton Presses, and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which i'orm a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to baling-presses, and its object is to provide a simple, cheap, and at the same time powerful form of press for baling hay, cotton, and all sorts of balable material, and also for compressing the same when required; and to these ends the novelty consists in the mechanical means or movement by which the same is accomplished, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particu larly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings similar letters ol reference indicate like parts of the invention.

Figure l is a perspective elevation of my improved press set up as a compress, and Fig. 2 is a similar view as an ordinary handpower press for baling cotton, hay, and like material.

The frame of the press may be of any approved i'orni, size, shape, or pattern to suit the objects in view, and I do not claim any particular form of frame, as my invention is limited to the mechanical means for compress` ing the material.

A is the follower, and B B vertical screws journaled in the cross-beam O.

D is a wheel mounted loosely on the screw B, and provided with a key, Z), fitting in the key-seat d in the screw B, so that when the wheel D is turned to the right or left the screw B will be raised or lowered while the wheel retains its original position.

D is a worm-wheel, screw-threaded to receive the screw B, and F is a worm working in the teeth e on the periphery of said wormwheel. From this construction it will be seen that if the worm F be operated through the medium of the shaft G and hand-wheel H the worm-wheel will be operated so as to force the screw B downward with an immense pressure without revolving the screw, and after the follower lias been forced to its lowest point it may be raised very rapidly by operating the wheel D, which rotates the screw without affecting the worm or worm-wheel.

In voperation the follower is raised to its highest point and the press filled with hay or cotton. The wheel D is then operated, which rapidly forces the follower down until the resistance of the material overcomes the power applied to said wheel, which is then abandoned, and the power applied to the shaft G. This gives a slower motion to the follower, but is so greatly multiplied that an ordinary bale of cotton may be compressed into one-third of its original bulk, and when the invention is applied to a compress the hand-wheels are removed and pulleys substituted, so that asteamengine may be used.

In the case ot' the compress two or more screws may be used, and then the wheels D are geared to a central pinion, K, which is provided on its upper face with a beveled gear, L, meshing with a similar gear, M, on a counter-shaft, N, provided with a belt or band pul ley, O. This causes the two or more screws to be operated simultaneously.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent of the United States, is-

l. In a press, the combination, with the screw B, having key-seat d, worm-wheel E, and worm F, of thewlleel D, having key b, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a hay or cot-ton press, the horizontal shaft having worms F of wheels E, in combination with wheels D, loosely keyed to the screw B, pinion K, and bevel-gear L, and the counter-shaft N, provided with bevel-gear M, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORG-E MoeovEnN.

lVitnesses E. H. BRADFORD, H. J. Ennis. 

